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Hey, what's up?! My name is Johnny (they/them) and I'm the newest Multimedia Designer at Pixel Bakery.

SEAchange co-founders Graham and Kyle visit with our Director and Founder, Jordan Lambrecht, to discuss the fully-baked company values the company tastefully leverages to impact the lives of employees and community members alike. Tune in for an enticing conversation about the importance of ingraining work-life balance, transparency, and mutual respect into the soul of a business.

We have some news :)

Hey there beauties! My name is Abby Hall and I am the newest baker in the shop here at PB!

I recently ran into an issue where I wanted to use NextJS's image optimization feature to display several images from Instagram.

I run a small, 11-person animation studio in the Midwest (shameless plug: @pixelbakery). As any small business owner knows, you’re only as good as your team.

Hello hello, my name is Rebecca and I am the newest animator at Pixel Bakery! A little background about myself is I’m originally a Cali girl, but I’ve been bouncing around the midwest for most of my life now—growing up in Omaha, earning my Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute, and rolling to a stop in Lincoln to be the newest Cook in Pixel Bakery’s Kitchen.

My name is Lizzie and I'm the new Post-Production apprentice here at Pixel Bakery!

Hello, fellow Bakery fans. Welcome to this blog post about me, Samee Callahan, the new Associate Creative Director at Pixel Bakery.

Chilling Out with Groovin’ Stueven, Pixel Bakery's newest Post-Production Specialist.

An internal process document that we provide to New Hire. It outlines all of the different technologies, terminologies, apps, and programs that our employees will be using daily during their tenure with us.

Olivia Boldt joins Pixel Bakery as a Project Manager

Hi friends! I’m Brenna- Pixel Bakery’s new ~Studio Manager~ and I’m so excited to be here. I’ll be making sure everything is running smoothly in the office and keeping Jordan sane.

Writing a Google Script to help keep your work email sane

Last, but certainly not least, in our 3-part Black History Month series – a history in Black cinematography. While the rest of the year will be focused on highlighting modern creatives, we’re wrapping up BHM with another look into the past.

An in-depth analysis on the science behind Adobe Illustrator's PDF presets

This is a scan of a newspaper article clipping. The article has disappeared off of the web and the original publication, LNK News, is now defunct.

Winning ADDYs while working from home

For Black History Month, we have been exploring the histories of our crafts and highlighting the Black creatives that have shaped our creative industry.

Hi, friends! Audrey Farnham here. I’m the newest recipe in Pixel Bakery’s cookbook!

Pixel Bakery is a design studio that specializes in animation, photography, videography, and graphic art. We couldn’t be more thankful to our community for letting us do what we love every single day. It’s Black History Month, and we figured we would explore the histories of our various crafts and spend the next few weeks highlighting the Black creatives that have shaped the industry we’re a part of.

There's little info regarding alpha channels, so I wrote about it. This should be useful for Twitch streamers (stream overlays) and OBS/Streamlabs users.

Daniel Hinz is an award-winning illustrative artist in his final year at UNL, and we couldn’t help but share his incredible senior Capstone project with you all. (Honestly, we just wanted to show him off… try not to get too jealous.)

Approaching the end of 2020 we all know one thing for certain, time isn't real. As it turns out, the main way the human world functions is by pretending time is real and adhering to a bunch of things like rules, deadlines, circadian rhythms… When a global pandemic arrives and your country (and especially your state 👀) doesn’t handle it very well, apparently all of that structure goes out the window and we become feral goblins unsure of how to exist within our own homes.

We are incredibly proud to say that our very own Jordan Lambrecht got selected to be the inaugural 2020 Young Professional of the Year!

Jordan Lambrecht, co-founder, and one of three managing partners of Lincolns Pixel Bakery Motion Studio pulls no punches in describing the early days of the four-year-old motion marketing production house.

The Nebraska Creative is your go-to resource for discovering design, advertising, and creative agencies in the heart of the Midwest – aka good ol’ Nebraska.

Today we’re going to talk about how to animate the illusion of text being drawn/painted onto the screen in After Effects using Trim Paths.

We compiled a list of our favorite local businesses and artists you can support while we're all staying at home with way too much time to meditate.

What’s up, I’m Lindsey Stewart, the newest bun in the Pixel Bakery oven!

Hi there! I’m Kaitlyn, Pixel Bakery’s freshest intern, and definitely not a seasoned baker. It turns out that mistaking powdered sugar for flour drastically affects the results of chocolate chip cookies — lesson learned. However, despite my lack of literal baking skills, you can count on me, the new Account Executive Apprentice, to stay on top of everything that is thrown my way and to keep it all organized (in a color-coded manner, of course).

Hey there, I’m Natalie! I’m Pixel Bakery’s newest addition to the team.

I’m here to provide 5 quick and easy tips to help juggle all of life’s craziness.

This past weekend, Pixel Bakery was honored to earn a silver award for their work on SoulPancake: The Price of Free at the 2019 AIGA Show.

Ten tips for anyone wanting to plunge into the daunting, fascinating, infuriating, yet always rewarding world of Adobe After Effects and motion design.

Hey, look! We actually have an employee that can bake. Here’s her recipe on monster toe breadsticks, just in time for Halloween!

Over the past few years, I’ve made a real effort in becoming a more sustainable consumer.

In this tutorial: I’ll go over how we utilize the Generate Assets tool inside of Adobe Photoshop to quickly modulate web-ready image assets.

Hi, I’m Tyler Loebig, and I’m the newest ingredient (multimedia designer/animator) to the Pixel Bakery spice rack.

Hi! I’m Gabby, Pixel Bakery’s first ever Brand Manager!

Hi! I’m Gabby, Pixel Bakery’s first ever Brand Manager!

A 3D model of a Polaroid Land Camera created in Cinema 4D and rendered with Arnold.

When I first started to think about how to build my own personal brand I immediately thought about my social channels.

At the 2019 Nebraska ADDY Awards, Pixel Bakery was awarded one gold and one silver in two different categories including animation and music.

Lincoln- I am proud to say, is filled with these bright and shiny lights. These humans that create their art, and make their difference. They feel the responsibility to build a better future through their creations.

Guerrilla Marketing is a strategy in which low-cost unconventional means (sampling, freebies, videos) are utilized, often in a localized fashion or large network of individual cells, to convey or promote a product or an idea.

This is a quick and dirty tutorial on Mt. Mograph’s Motion2 plugin for After Effects.

There are gaps in our education. No secret there, right? Personal finance, communication skills, sales skills, and leadership development might not have made it onto your syllabus. This means it’s on us to fill those gaps.

In this tutorial, Jordan covers the basics of setting up a Bootstraps 4 website.

I’ve lived in Nebraska my whole life, and when you live in Nebraska, you get used to talking about the weather.

Here’s a quick tutorial for setting up a new composition in After Effects.

A very long class tutorial on how to get characters ready for animation, focusing on how their joints interact with each other.

When I decided at eighteen years old what I should probably do with the rest of my life, I settled on a career as a journalist. Fast forward a year, and I decided that really wasn’t the thing for me–I wanted to design, too.

A quick tutorial on how to smooth out bezier paths and points within Adobe Illustrator CC.

What’s up y’all! I’m Mitch Johnson. The fresh wheat here at PB.

A few weeks ago, Jordan, Karley and I were honored to accept the New Company Entrepreneur Award from the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship.

This summer, we worked with local eCommerce company Spreetail on their latest community involvement event.

Now that Lincoln Calling 2018 has come to a close, we wanted to share with you our storyboarding process.

This past Saturday, we were excited to accept a Gold AIGA award for work we created with our partners at KANEKO.

Hello! Week Four of the Nebraska Type Challenge has concluded! We’re very excited about the submissions for this week!!

What’s up, egg whites? Week 3 of the Nebraska Type Challenge had our participants designing the semicolon.

On September 3rd, 2018 at 2:20 PM, a former NFL player posted a simple image on Twitter. The image was a portrait of himself with two lines of text spanning from cheek to cheek. What followed was unprecedented.

What’s up, rolling pins? Week 2 of the Nebraska Type Challenge had our participants tackling the question mark.

This week officially kicks off the Nebraska Type Challenge, a 30 week typography experiment that Pixel Bakery is helping put on.

Hi! I’m Hannah Klemme! I’m new here.

We’re honored to be selected as the latest Prosper Lincoln Step Up award recipient!

Sorry for the long rant. But this is important.

Who You Should Be Following (ON THE ‘GRAM)

Here are my favorite animated music videos of all time. I love to reference them with clients- they always inspire creativity.

As a production studio and creative shop, we’re naturally curious and always learning, using what we see in television and film in an attempt to answer our creative questions.

The point of this post isn’t to tell you to “just go for it,” because sometimes that advice is wrong and thinking it out is the right choice.

I’m a firm believer that the space you create in dictates what the end result of your project will be.

Intro to Color Theory (or colour if you’re British and need to tell everyone)

Hello hello. Here’s a brief demo on how to integrate a php workflow with Bootstrap 4.

Last weekend, Pixel Bakery was awarded two golds and three silvers in five different categories at the Nebraska ADDY Awards.

We had a pretty good showing at this year’s ADDY’s. View the winning work below, and drop us a line if you want to get in on this list next year.

Hiya. Here’s a quick guide written for my students on what Pixel Bakery uses for our render workflow.

After reading this post on reddit, I decided it would be cool to have my design students try this project out.

Today in class a lot of my students were struggling with the AutoRig function inside of DUIK.

Kaitlin “KB” Brodeur – Baking creative goods since ’94

When I graduated college back in 2015 with my art and advertising degree, my prospects were grim being a creative in the new world of adulting.

Pixel Bakery recently created a logo for Omaha Spring Cleanup, an annual initiative by Keep Omaha Beautiful that focuses on community beautification and environmental education.

I stayed fairly productive all day, continuing to hone in and solidify a strong mood board for Pixel Bakery’s style guide.

Yo, I'm Sophie! I am Pixel Bakery's newest pastry apprentice.

We now have as many ADDY’s as Leo DiCaprio has Oscars. Congrats to all the 2017 ADDY Awards winners.

One of the awesome things about working for an animation studio is the wide variety of projects that you get to be involved in.

Hello poor, lost soul and welcome to our blog.